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	'<{title}>' => 'Earrings',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="earrings">
	<h2>Earrings</h2>
	<p>
		My earrings arrived in the mail today.
		The black one is pretty subtle, as it blends in a bit with my darkish hair.
		(These ones are ear cuffs for the top of the ear, not the more-common earlobe earrings.)
		I guess that&apos;s what I wanted from it, though at the same time, it&apos;s slightly disappointing that it doesn&apos;t stand out.
		The silver one stands out nicely though, so I can shift between a subtle look and a more-easily noticed look depending on my mood.
		I only got the third one to get gratis shipping.
		I haven&apos;t tried it on, but it&apos;s green.
		If there was a cyan option, I&apos;d&apos;ve gotten that and I&apos;d be more eager to try it on.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			There seems to be a bug in the school&apos;s website.
			When I try to load the page using the link provided, I&apos;m shown an error message saying that the course is only available to students.
			Clearly I am a student though, and clearly I&apos;m enrolled in this course already.
			Elsewhere on the Internet, I found three different reports by the same name though, so I&apos;ve chosen the one I think is most likely of those to be the right one.
		</p>
		<p>
			The report is about why humans live better when our environment is in a better condition.
			It should be completely obvious that because people are animals, we have similar needs as other animals.
			We have environmental needs and when our habitat is disrupted, it harms our quality of life.
			However, many people don&apos;t even accept that people <strong>*are*</strong> animals, and likely as a result, they don&apos;t take into account how much we depend on our environment.
			They trash our environment, which harms not only the species that die out, but those of us that survive such as humans as well.
			Like the report says, the effect of the environment on us is complex and often indirect, which makes it difficult at times to see what harm we&apos;re going to be doing to ourselves when we harm our environment until it&apos;s too late (World Health Organisation, 2005).
		</p>
		<p>
			One thing I learned was that humans need twenty to fifty litres of water per day.
			I drink more than most people I know, but I only drink about two to four litres per day.
			I hadn&apos;t given much thought to how much water I need.
			However, other uses of water are important as well.
			Showering, cooking, sanitation ...
			It all adds up.
			I also learned that poor ventilation combined with burning solid mater for fuel causes an indoor pollution issues for many in poorer countries, causing problems up to and including death (World Health Organisation, 2005).
			I take my decent ventilation and lack of needing to burn stuff for granted.
		</p>
		<p>
			$a[HIV] is the diseases that scares me the most from table 1.1.
			$a[HIV] is forever, so once you catch it, there&apos;s no going back.
			As a queer, I also have a statistically higher risk of catching it than the average person.
			To reduce the damage it cases, all we can really do for now is do our best not to let it spread.
			We can do this by avoiding contact with the blood of others, as we don&apos;t know who is infected and not.
			We also need to raise awareness about the threat and prevention of this disease.
			Monogamy also greatly hampers $a[HIV]&apos;s ability to spread.
			Sexual protection (such as condoms) is also vital.
			Lastly, one should never have sex with a new partner until both people have been tested, just in case.
		</p>
		<p>
			The report talks a lot about the harm done by our destruction of the environment.
			It also discusses how much we rely on our environment and how people with access to less resources frequently deal with harmful results of their lack of resources every day.
			The strategies of minimising the destruction of the environment and adapting to the new state of our environment (as in, the state it&apos;s in now that we&apos;ve botched the environment up so badly) are both discussed (World Health Organisation, 2005).
			However, the report did leave me wondering if they&apos;d thought about how to repair our damaged environment.
			We can&apos;t go entirely back to how things were before.
			We&apos;ve driven entire species into extinction, and there&apos;s no way to reverse that (at least not with modern science; maybe one day in the future).
			However, I&apos;m curious to know how much thought has gone into repairing things as best we can and trying to restore many of the environmental balances we&apos;ve so carelessly disrupted.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				World Health Organisation. (2005). Ecosystems and Human Well-being. Retrieved from <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43354/9241563095.pdf"><code>http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43354/9241563095.pdf</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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